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A Picture Says 1,000 Words - Page 110
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Jan1997
Norway671 Posts
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REDBLUEGREEN
Germany1904 Posts
On April 05 2015 17:04 zergtat wrote: ![[image loading]](http://www.shindles.co.uk/stockgrove/light/earthlighths.jpg) Light pollution on earth as seen from space. Interesting picture that I looked at way too long. I guess there must be some problems because it is a composition of different pictures. East Asia seems overexposed compared to Horn of Africa for example. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Yakutsk and even some random spot in the middle of the highlands of Papua New Guinea that can only be Mendi (population 20k) or Mount Hagen(50k) appear brighter then Mogadishu(2mil) and Addis Abeba(3mil). | ||
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Millitron
United States2611 Posts
On April 06 2015 20:50 REDBLUEGREEN wrote: Interesting picture that I looked at way too long. I guess there must be some problems because it is a composition of different pictures. East Asia seems overexposed compared to Horn of Africa for example. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Yakutsk and even some random spot in the middle of the highlands of Papua New Guinea that can only be Mendi (population 20k) or Mount Hagen(50k) appear brighter then Mogadishu(2mil) and Addis Abeba(3mil). Mogadishu may simply have less electricity. I don't know much about Somali economics, but it's possible that many of those 2 million don't have power. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/PsTcTsk.jpg) Apollo astronaut Gene Cernan covered in moon dust after accidentally breaking a protective fender off the lunar rover. | ||
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fruity.
England1711 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/oc4cLHc.jpg) --- And here's a gif of a solar flare with the Earth to scale, too big for TL, so you'll have to click the damn link! http://i.imgur.com/ZrPKNg2.gifv | ||
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MountainDewJunkie
United States10345 Posts
On April 06 2015 17:10 fruity. wrote:+ Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/MjF6W6A.jpg) A Syrian child wept in terror when she mistook an aid worker's camera for a gun and thought he was trying to shoot her when he took her photo My God. How awful. | ||
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fruity.
England1711 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/DYB4fFl.jpg) Time flies. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
![[image loading]](http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2015-12-a-xlarge_web.jpg) Westerlund 2, Hubble's 25th Anniversary Image. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/0ZDwoWr.jpg) Curiosity rover spoted by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on April 8, 2015 on the lower slope of Mount Sharp. And I finally found the image after almost a year of searching online, truly fits this thread: + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PnjruCyyH70/SZ2-sEvSbrI/AAAAAAAAANs/_Jo1PB2ph7U/s1600/1939%2Bpolish%2Bsoldier%2Bwife.jpg) Rites of passage and, all too probably, their final meeting: a Polish woman slips something into her husband's knapsack as he leaves for the front, September 1939. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/Psivanv.jpg) Astronaut John Glenn relaxes aboard the USS Noa after his historic Mercury flight, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth (February, 20, 1962). ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/qEAV4Vf.jpg) German Soldier and Son Pose for the Camera in Berlin. 1914. | ||
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nikj
Canada669 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/wcOTntq.jpg) Source | ||
Yhamm
France7248 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/8AdNXkp.jpg) Crack on the frozen Lake Baikal | ||
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fruity.
England1711 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/4yw7ch2.jpg) Most applicable with the recent Memorial Day in America. When those in the armed forces lose a friend in war, veterans might buy them a drink, a small but touching gesture. I've read on more than one occasion (as happened in the above) The managers of the establishment might leave the drink there for the rest of the day. In memory, lest we forget. edit: IED - Improvised Explosive Device, EOD - Explosive Ordnance Disposal, RC - Remote Control | ||
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Shendelzare
Netherlands126 Posts
World's most interesting island....or treehouse. | ||
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KelsierSC
United Kingdom10443 Posts
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MtlGuitarist97
United States1539 Posts
On May 27 2015 22:39 KelsierSC wrote: do a lot of these war pictures actually say a thousand words? to me they just say "war is bad and bad things happen" I don't know seems like people are trying to act deep with this but really they are just posting gross pictures. I think some of them really do say a lot. The girl who was scared of the photographer says a lot more than just "war is bad" and it speaks to a whole dimension that a lot of us just don't ever come into contact with. I agree that a lot of them are repetitive and we all know about the tragedies of war, but some of the pictures have a human element to them that words don't really capture in my opinion. | ||
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Deleuze
United Kingdom2102 Posts
On May 27 2015 22:39 KelsierSC wrote: do a lot of these war pictures actually say a thousand words? to me they just say "war is bad and bad things happen" I don't know seems like people are trying to act deep with this but really they are just posting gross pictures. A picture saying more than a thousand words is a metaphor for saying that images can convey more feeling over text. It's about quality rather than quantity. | ||
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OuchyDathurts
United States4588 Posts
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MountainDewJunkie
United States10345 Posts
On May 27 2015 22:39 KelsierSC wrote: do a lot of these war pictures actually say a thousand words? to me they just say "war is bad and bad things happen" I don't know seems like people are trying to act deep with this but really they are just posting gross pictures. This kind of squeamish NIMBY attitude is precisely why war photos are important to share. | ||
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dAVID002
United States0 Posts
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Foblos
United States426 Posts
On May 30 2015 10:15 MountainDewJunkie wrote: This kind of squeamish NIMBY attitude is precisely why war photos are important to share. People not wanting to see war or support the shedding of blood aren't people to look down on. I don't want to see war photos either, but some of them do really show important human moments. A lot of others, however, are just iconic war photos or things that make war look interesting. His criticism is valid. That said, for some people all of these pictures really are worth more than a thousand words. These pictures boil down to art, in a sense, and art is very much appreciated by a person according to their life. I would have it that war is entirely eradicated and forgotten, but this stuff really speaks to people. | ||
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